[2023-10-16] GUI Team Demo Day

[farmaazon]

The Searcher input is now interpreted using parser; the filtering works better, and also applying suggestion works. It's better than the old GUI because:

1. It adds space to operator if needed (like 2 + input turns to 2 + operator1 instead of 2 +operator1)
2. It fills the qualified name segments properly
3. "Entering modules" works as in the newest design: the module name is added to input with a dot, and its content is then displayed.
4. The space is not so aggressively added - instead, we just move the cursor past the character (like, past a comma or closing bracket).

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[mwu-tow]

Wrapping a number of remaining loose ends with CI:

• Releasing IDE2 artifacts;
• Fixes for case when Backend tests results were not correctly uploaded;
• Automatic cleaning CI servers;
• Bumping some outdated third-party actions.

GUI2:
Started work on alias analysis (#7863): had some discussions with the Engine Team regarding the language semantics. I expect some implementation work this week (not necessarily complete though).

[wdanilo]

On my end:

• I created next parts of the website. Almost all node-related animations are there.
• I spent literally days on making the mock data animations and being sure it runs correctly. It's there and works well.
• I reworked all captions for the website to keep them shorter and easier to read. I also re-worked what we show in animations to keep them short as well.

Here is a preview, I will post full video at the end of the day, as there is also a geo-map animation, but I broke it before this call:

Screen.Recording.2023-10-16.at.16.03.45.mov

What is missing:

• Connections between nodes.
• Fixing bugs (esp. when resizing screen) and polishing the feel.
• Buy page (small one).

We have a hard deadline of the website the beginning of next week, so when I will release preview this week, I will be thankful for extensive testing.

[vitvakatu]

Working on documentation panel implementation.

A lot of work on the backend side of things, implementing intermediate representation for entries documentation and utilities to process doc sections.
With help from @Frizi, implemented ReactiveDb abstraction, which allows us building arbitrary indexes on top of the Suggestion database.

Also, fixes from the engine team allowed me to use a real suggestion database instead of mocks, which uncovered many visual issues.

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[MichaelMauderer]

• Finished work on Graph execution - play button. #7990, review/merge is pending a test of the updated Language Server that should solve some issues with timeouts. Should move forward tomorrow.
• Started work on Node Edit mode and accepting CB edits. #7786 and should finish this week.

[kazcw]

• Finished adding document references to Spans Ensure all spans have document offsets #8039 (in CI).
• Merging progress on Disconnected edges #7922 to avoid further merge conflicts (applying review).
• Implementing type-driven AST traversal Ast traversal API #8025, will finish today.

[somebody1234]

• Mostly working on dashboard last week, but:
• Implemented CodeMirror highlighting #8075
  • Turns out it was relying on old code, so hover tooltips are currently broke on develop, currently this is planned to be fixed in Avoid relative imports whenever possible #8074 (minor GUI2 spring cleaning PR)
• (PSA?) A recent dashboard PR broke npm run dev, hotfix incoming: Fix issue with circular import #8078

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[Frizi]

• Helped with typescript AST representation design, in preparation for allowing mutable AST operations. Cleaned up AST typescript code generator. [GUI2] use DataView directly in generated parser code #8028
• Helped with reactive database and index implementation needed for more advanced suggestion database features (such as hierarchy traversal) [gui2] Implement LazySyncEffectSet #8058
• Added finding of the AST subtree matching current execution context stack, and creating nodes from statements defined in it. Still working on "proto-widgets" view that use that AST in each node view. Reading graph definition from AST #7791

[hubertp]

Relevant Engine changes:

• Fix initialization issues with new GUI Fix initialization race-condition in runtime connector #7985
• Enso VS Extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Enso.enso4vscode